Nursery toilet seat



H. K. MIDDLETON NURSERY TOILET SEAT Aug" 3, 1948.

Filed July 12, 1947 INVENTOR. H/xaw A. M/aaura/v Patented Aug. 3, 1948 UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE V NURSERY TOILET SEAT Hixon K. Middleton, San Jose, Calif.

Application JIJIY'IZ, 1947, Serial No. 760,535

4 Claims. 1

This application is a continuation-in-part of my pending application Serial Number 509,688,

filed November 10, 1943 (now abandoned), and the invention forming the subject matter hereof relates to nursery toilet seats of the type found useful in infant training.

It is an object of this invention to provide a nursery toilet seat which will take into consideration the comfort of the user; which will be readily transportable; which will be sturdy, and yet have regard for certain desirable factors of safety.

It is a further object of this invention to'provide a. nursery toilet seat which is adapted for use with conventional chambers or pots. It is another object of this invention to provide a nursery toilet seat comparatively inexpensive to manufacture and extremely simple to make ready for use.

These and other objects of the invention to become apparent as this specification proceeds are attained by the employment of a seat member readily attachable to the top of a conventional chamber or pot and provided with supporting means independent of but supplementing the support furnished by the pot itself. Additionally, the device includes a simplified means for positively locking the seat to a chamber or pot.

In the drawings forming a part hereof and wherein one form of the invention is shown as an example,

Figure 1 is .a side elevation of a nursery toilet seat embodying the principles of the invention forming the subject matter hereof;

Figure 2 is a bottom view of the device of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a view in section taken along lines 33 of Figure 2, showing the potty in solid outline.

It is well known that conventional chambers or potties consist of a straight walled vessel, generally of enameled ware, having a pronounced outwardly projecting flange at its top. One form of such potty is illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawings in dotted lines, the vessel proper being indicated by the numeral [0, the top flange being indicated by the numeral H and the usual handle is indicated at l.

As heretofore stated, the nursery toilet seat forming the subject matter of this invention is adapted to be attached to a potty such as that shown in Figure 1. It consists of the seat member l2 having a central Opening l3 therein. If desired, the top surface of the seat l2 may partake of such configuration (not shown) as will increase the comfort of the user. This is a matter of refinement which forms no part of the present invention, but which would be employed in commercial embodiments of the same to increase and enhance the utility of the device.

Likewise, ornamentation of the seat may take different forms, and the western saddle configuration illustrated in the accompanying drawing is one choice. Here, the pommel IS, in addition to being an item of decoration, has the function of providing a grip for the hands of the child and is a brace for the upper end of the splash guard l4. Moreoven'the cantle l6 of the saddle configuration serves to support or retain the child on the seat. Beyond this, if desired, conventional waist encincling straps (not shown) may be employed to prevent the child from quitting the seat during training.

The under side of the seat I2 is provided with a pair of opposed skirts l8 and I9, each having a curved radius to accommodate flange I l of the pot I0.

To supplement the support given the seat l2 by the pot l0 itself, and additionally center the pot l2 with respect to the central seat opening I3, I provide the rigid fixed rear legs 22 and 23 and the slidable front leg 25.

The legs 22 and 23 are bent inwardly to provide :a horizontally disposed section 26 by which they may be connected to seat l2,'as by means of brackets 21 screwed to the seat. The leg section 26 is flattened at the top to bear against the under side of seat I2 (see Figure 1). Legs 22 and 23 are then bent outwardly to furnish two legs of the tripod-like support of which leg 25 is the other portion. Each of the legs 22, 23 and 25 has its tip turned upwardly and outwardly, as at 28 to provide a smooth rounded foot surface.

The front leg 25, corresponding in shape to legs 22 and 23, is attached to the underside of seat l2 by means of the sprin clamp 3|, one end of which is rigidly anchored to the seat l2 by a conventional screw and the other end of which is adjustably connected thereto by means of the knurled clamping screw 32. Clamp 3| has a journaled mid-portion 33 to engage the section 34 of leg 25 disposed in the plane of seat l2.

When it is desired to insert the pot in in the seat I2, the clamping screw 32 is loosened to unclamp leg 25 which may then be slid forwardly to the position indicated in dotted lines (Figure 3). Pot I0 is then placed between skirts l8 and ill with its flange ll inserted under the. upper curvature of legs 22 and 23 (see Figure 2).

Splash guard 14 serves as an additional stop as may take many additional forms and-hence full.

protection is desired in accordance with the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A nursery toilet seat for use with arflangedi pot comprising, a seat member having a central opening, a pair of legs rigidly attachedto therea-r of the seat and so disposed thereon thatrtheyfabut the pot when the latter is in registry with the central opening in the seat, and a leg slidably connected at the front of the seat and so disposed thereon that when in its'innerniostpositionit" abuts the pot when the latter-is in registry-with the'central opening in the seat;

2-. A-nursery toiletseat for use with aflangedpot comprising, a seat member having a central opening, a pair of legs rigidlyattached to the rear ofthe seat and so-disposed thereon-that-theyj abut the pot when the latter is in' registry with the central openin in the seat, a leg slidably connected at the front of the seat and so disposed thereon that when in'ritsinnermost position it abuts-the potwhen the latter is in registry with the central opening inthe seat, and means cari 4 ried by the seat for clamping the slidalble leg in its innermost position.

3. A nursery toilet seat for use with a flanged pot comprising, a seat member having a central opening, skirt members on opposite sides of the seat to receive the pot flange, a pair of legs rigidly attached to the rear of the seat and disposed to abut the pot when the latter is centered with respect to the central seat opening, a le slidably attaehed'to the front of -ithe seat anddisposed when in its innermost position to abutthe pot vwhen the latter is centered with respect to the seat, and a screw clamp for lockin the front leg irritsrinrrermost position.

4:. A nursery toilet seat for use with a flanged pot -comprising, a seat member having a central opening, .means, on the seat engaging the pot flange to bring the latter into registering relation 'with the central opening in the seat, a plurality of supporting legs carried by the seat, at least one of said legs being adjustable laterally with: respect to the axis ofthe pot, and each of the supporting; legshaving. a portion =engageable with I the pot flange.

HIXON MIDDLETON,

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